248332 - winmagazine.nl - site looks terrible inn Mozilla and Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Dutch, defect)

Description

[Peter Schram]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040210 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040210 Firefox/0.8

The site does load, but most of it is positioned wrong. You can reach most of
it, but is sure doesn't look pretty. 

validator.w3.org complains 298 times!!!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. type www.winmagazine.nl
2. press enter
3. observe misplacement of sidebars, centre piece of tekst and the like.
Actual Results:  
the page loads, but that is about it.

Expected Results:  
render correctly

www.winmagazine.nl is a site of a Dutch magazine about Windows related software.
I contacted them in the past, but they seem to think it is impossible that
people using Windows should use something else than Internet Explorer. They were
not eager to do anything about it at the time.

Comment 1

[Benedikt Kantus]

I can reproduce this with Firefox trunk build Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows
NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040621 Firefox/0.8.0+

Though I'm not sure whether it's Mozilla's fault or the site's.

Comment 2

[Bernard Alleysson]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040615
Looks like a bug in Mozilla when the page is refreshed from the cache
shift + reload works for me

Comment 3

[Troodon]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040615
> Looks like a bug in Mozilla when the page is refreshed from the cache
> shift + reload works for me

Confirming with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a2)
Gecko/20040621
It looks fine when when it's loaded "directly" but the problem appears when it's
loaded from cache.

Comment 4

[Felix Miata]

Never looks fine for me with 1.7 on OS/2.

Comment 5

[Patrick]

Just wondering: does that make it a Tech Evang bug then?

Comment 6

[Patrick]

is this a lay-out problem or tech evang problem?

Comment 7

[:Gijs (he/him)]

This seems fine now, closing WFM.